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For years, the cybersecurity industry has accepted a grim reality: migrating to a zero trust architecture is a marathon of misery. CIOs have been conditioned to expect multi-year deployment timelines, characterized by turning screws, manual configurations, and the relentless care and feeding of legacy SASE vendors. But at Cloudflare, we believe that kind of complexity is a choice, not a requirement. Today, we are highlighting how our partners are proving that what used to take years now takes weeks.

Cato Networks has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) — marking the third consecutive year we’ve earned this distinction. And, once again, Cato is positioned closest to the center of the Radar, of all participants. In this year’s GigaOm Radar for SASE, Cato is positioned in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant, reflecting the depth, completeness, and enterprise readiness of the Cato SASE Platform.

When you need to use a proxy to keep your zero trust environment secure, it often comes with a cost: poor performance for your users. Soon after deploying a client proxy, security teams are generally slammed with support tickets from users frustrated with sluggish browser speed, slow file transfers, and video calls glitching at just the wrong moment. After a while, you start to chalk it up to the proxy — potentially blinding yourself to other issues affecting performance.

Return to office has stalled for many, and the “new normal” for what the corporate network means is constantly changing. In 2026, your office may be a coffee shop, your workforce includes autonomous AI agents, and your perimeter is wherever the Internet reaches. This shift has forced a fundamental change in how we think about security, moving us toward a critical new architecture: agile SASE.

During Security Week 2025, we launched the industry’s first cloud-native post-quantum Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Zero Trust solution, a major step towards securing enterprise network traffic sent from end user devices to public and private networks. But this is only part of the equation. To truly secure the future of enterprise networking, you need a complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

There are many NSFW instances in which substituting a single letter in a word can make the difference between a person retaining their job and finding themselves scanning career sites for a new position. Luckily, this does not carry over when looking at the difference between SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) and SSE (Security Service Edge). Both deliver security, but the two solutions deliver different outcomes, so choosing which is right for your organization is key.